Qualcomm predicts declining sales this year, its R&D spending is increasing less than its revenues and much less than the market, its top processor is criticised for over-heating, it has lost the top mobile processor slot at Samsung, it is losing out on design-wins in China…

Samsung suffered a catastrophic collapse in smartphone market share in Q3 from 35% to 25% while four year-old Xiaomi of China bagged up a 6% share to take third place after Apple’s 12%, reports Strategy Analytics…